The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.